* David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this issue was raised a few days ago in the context of someone
> tampering with the files and it was decided that the extra checks were
> good enough to prevent this (at least for now), but what about
> accidental collisions?
>
> if I am understanding things right the objects get saved in the
> filesystem in filenames that are the SHA1 hash. of two legitimate
> files have the same hash I don't see any way for both of them to
> exist.
>
> yes the risk of any two files having the same has is low, but in the
> earlier thread someone chimed in and said that they had two files on
> their system that had the same hash..
you can add -DCOLLISION_CHECK to Makefile:CFLAGS to turn on collision
checking (disabled currently). If there indeed exist two files that have
different content but the same hash, could someone send those two files?
Ingo
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